Russian Military Satellites: Development and Launches

owais.usmani wrote:....

The picture now emerging is that Kosmos-2551 and 2555 may not have been failures after all and were actually intended to stay in orbit for only several weeks. The chances that the two satellites suffered exactly the same type of failure must be considered relatively small.

Pre-launch operations and the launch of the rocket took place in the normal mode, the department noted.

MOSCOW, 1 August. /TASS/. The Soyuz-2.1v light-class rocket launched on Monday evening from the Plesetsk cosmodrome, it will put into orbit a spacecraft developed for the Russian Defense Ministry, the department of information and mass communications of the military department told reporters on Friday.

"On Monday, August 1, at 23:25 Moscow time, from the State Test Cosmodrome of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (Plesetsk Cosmodrome), the combat crew of the Aerospace Forces successfully launched a Soyuz-2.1v light launch vehicle with a spacecraft, developed in the interests of the Russian Ministry of Defense," the statement said.

It is noted that the pre-launch operations and the launch of the rocket took place in the normal mode. The launch and flight of the rocket was controlled by means of a ground-based automated control complex.

It is also reported that the ground assets of the Space Forces of the Russian Aerospace Forces took the Soyuz-2.1v rocket for escort. "The Soyuz-2.1v space rocket, which launched at 23:25 (MSK) from the Plesetsk state test cosmodrome, was accepted for escort by ground means of the Main Test Space Center named after G. S. Titov of the Space Forces Air -Space Forces," the statement said.

The upper stage "Volga" with a military satellite regularly separated from the second stage of the Soyuz-2.1v rocket, which put it into orbit. "The space warhead of the Soyuz-2.1v light-class space rocket as part of the Volga launch unit and the spacecraft launched in the interests of the Russian Ministry of Defense, at the estimated time - 23 hours 34 minutes (Moscow time) - routinely separated from the second stage of the launch vehicle "Soyuz-2.1v", - the message says.

George1 wrote:what type, we dont know yet

MOSCOW, October 16. /TASS/. The Kosmos-2560 satellite launched in interests of the Russian Defense Ministry from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in the Archangelsk Region using the Angara-1.2 light launch vehicle was successfully put into the target orbit, the Ministry told reporters on Sunday.

The light launch vehicle with the spacecraft blasted off at 22:55 Moscow time on Saturday.

"The Kosmos-2560 spacecraft launched by combat crews of the Space Force of Russia’s Aerospace Forces from the State Test Cosmodrome Plesetsk was placed on the target orbit at the estimated time and was taken for tracking by terrestrial facilities of the Russian Defense Ministry," the Ministry said.

Robust telecommunication is being maintained with the satellite and its onboard systems are functioning normally, the Ministry added.

The devices were assigned serial numbers "Cosmos-2561" and "Cosmos-2562"

MOSCOW, 22 October. /TASS/. The Russian Aerospace Forces launched a Soyuz-2.1v carrier rocket from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk region, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday.

"On October 21, from the Plesetsk cosmodrome, in the interests of the Russian Ministry of Defense, a Soyuz-2.1v light-class carrier rocket was launched with spacecraft on board. The spacecraft were assigned the serial numbers Cosmos-2561 and Cosmos-2562," it says. in a departmental announcement.